Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hastily.
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- adverb obsolete In a
festinate manner;hastily ;hurriedly .
Etymologies
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festinate + -ly
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Examples
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Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither: I must employ him in a letter to my love.
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Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither; I must employ him in a letter to my love.
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Give enlargement to the swain -- bring him festinately hither.
Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither: I must employ him in a letter to my love.
Love's Labour's Lost 1594
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